Aden Popularity. In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 369 in baby name popularity for boys with 864 occurrences. It ranked 7,564 in baby name popularity for girls with 15 occurrences. In contrast, the year before it ranked 335 in baby name popularity for boys with 994 occurrences.
It became the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) effective July 1, 1967. The organization was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 24, 1970, and Centers for Disease Control effective October 14, 1980. An act of the United States Congress appended the words and Prevention to the name effective October 27, 1992. However, Congress directed that the initialism CDC be retained because of its name recognition.
Precautions developed in 1996 by the CDC that augment universal precautions and body substance isolation practices. They provide a wider range of protection and are used by time there is contact with blood, or non-intact skin. They are designed to protect all health care providers, patients, and visitors.